Scurvy is back in the US and UK

[Emily]

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-di...showing-up-in-americas-poorest-people-2015-11

A disease that once plagued pirates is now showing up in America's poorest people

• Karen D. Brown, Slate

• Nov. 22, 2015, 10:01 AM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/hea...hildren-with-diets-worse-than-in-the-war.html

Scurvy returns among children with diets 'worse than in the war?
Wartime diseases are returning to Britain because some children are living on junk food diets that are worse for them than rationing was 70 years ago, officials have claimed. By Steve Hawkes, Consumer Affairs Editor and John Bingham

9:28PM BST 03 Jul 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-31039895

Dylan Seabridge, aged eight, died of scurvy, says coroner

• 29 January 2015
• From the section Wales

...
Home Office pathologist Dr Deryck Simon James, who carried out the post mortem examination, concluded that Dylan's death was due to a vitamin C deficiency, commonly known as scurvy.
Katie Hanson, representing the Seabridges, told the inquest that Professor Joris Dlanghe, a specialist from Belgium, questioned those findings.
She told the inquest that Professor Dlanghe was of the opinion that other deficiencies such as folic acid would have been present too, but were not.
"The parents don't accept that Dylan died of scurvy," she said.

Many foods here in the US must be supplemented with folic acid so that might explain how blood tests might find low C but adequate folic acid. (How usable supplemental folic acid is by the overall population is controversial, however.)